“It is plain that our Lord did not use the words, ‘Search the Scriptures,’ in the sense in which the Protestants use them. He did not refer His hearers to the Scriptures in the same way that the Protestant refers you. For if so, why did they need His further teaching? He made the same use of the Scriptures as Catholics do in speaking to Protestants at this day. The Catholic says to Protestants, ‘Search the Scriptures,’ for these are they which testify of the Church as well as of her Head. They expressly command you to ‘hear the Church’ (St. Matt, xviii. 17).”—P. 11. “A Catholic priest at the present day might follow the example of St. Paul, and show that Jesus whom he preached was Christ; that the Church which he preached to them was in very deed the society to which such high and noble privileges were promised in Holy Scripture. And every one who should give heed to his preaching in the same way as the Bereans did, would not fail to meet with the same reward. He also would ‘believe;’ believe not only the one doctrine which had been thus proved to him from Holy Scripture, viz. that the Church was the appointed teacher of mankind, but also every other doctrine which the same teacher might propose to his belief, whether written in the Holy Bible or not.”—P. 14. Extract from another tract, entitled, “_The Church_, _the Guardian of Scripture_, or, _How does the Bible come to us_?” “People are apt to think of the Bible, as if it were a whole without parts, indivisible, self-existent, in short, a kind of divinity; or, at least, as if it had come down from heaven precisely such as we now have it, ready bound to our hands, if not with the Bible Society’s stamp upon it.”—P. 7. Extract from another tract, entitled, “_The Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary_, or, _The use of the Beads no vain Repetition_.” “Perhaps you find something that shocks you in the fact of the ‘Hail Mary’ being repeated so much oftener than the Lord’s Prayer; and it may be that there is in this a fresh instance of that unhappy creature-worship which disfigures every part of the Catholic religion. Now do not suppose that the reason of this is, that we consider prayers addressed to the Blessed Virgin better than prayers addressed to God. We do certainly think her prayers for us are better, and more likely to be heard and answered than our own; because we know that she was ever perfectly free from all stain of guilt, and is now nearest to God in glory; and we feel ourselves full of the defilement of sin.”—P. 10.